ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- As we get older, we all face the risk of age-related macular degeneration. There is no cure. But local scientists are setting their sights on outer space and some high-flying ...

A breakthrough treatment has allowed damaged retinal cells to regenerate themselves. The current research has been conducted on mice, but the pathways are the same in humans, which opens hope for a ...

Researchers in China have successfully restored the vision of mice with retinitis pigmentosa, one of the major causes of blindness in humans. The study, to be published March 17 in the Journal of ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

The inherited retinal disease, retinitis pigmentosa (RP)—marked by progressive and irreversible loss of retinal photoreceptors—is a major cause of blindness in humans. Now, researchers have ...

It's been about seven years since researchers used the CRISPER gene-editing system to reverse a blindness-inducing condition called retinitis pigmentosa in stem cells outside the body. Now, using a ...

Sightless mice, monkey see infrared with tellurium-powered artificial retinas, bringing scientists closer to treating blindness in people Researchers have used a rare mineral produced mostly in China ...

Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision ...